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2 XII December 2014 2 XII December 2014 www.ijraset.com Volume 2 Issue XII, December 2014 ISSN: 2321-9653 International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology (IJRASET) Overview and Comparative Study of Different Microcontrollers Rajratna Khadse1, Nitin Gawai2, Bagwan M. Faruk3 1Assist.Professor, Electronics Engineering Department, RCOEM, Nagpur 2,3Assist.Professor, E & Tc Engineering Department, JDIET, Yavatmal Abstract—A microcontroller is a small and low-cost computer built for the purpose of dealing with specific tasks, such as displaying information on seven segment display at railway platform or receiving information from a television’s remote control. Microcontrollers are mainly used in products that require a degree of control to be exerted by the user. Today various types of microcontrollers are available in market with different word lengths such as 8bit, 16bit, 32bit, and microcontrollers. Microcontroller is a compressed microcomputer manufactured to control the functions of embedded systems in office machines, robots, home appliances, motor vehicles, and a number of other gadgets. Therefore in today’s technological world lot of things done with the help of Microcontroller. Depending upon the applications we have to choose particular types of Microcontroller. The aim of this paper to give the basic information of microcontroller and comparative study of 8051 Microcontroller, ARM Microcontroller, PIC Microcontroller and AVR Microcontroller Keywords— Microcontroller, Memory, Instruction, cycle, bit, architecture I. INTRODUCTION Microcontrollers have directly or indirectly impact on our daily life. Usually, But their presence is unnoticed at most of the places like: At supermarkets in Cash Registers, Weighing Scales, Video games ,security system , etc. At home in Ovens, Washing Machines, Alarm Clocks, paging, VCR, LASER Printers, color printers etc. At Toys, Cellular phones, Climate control, Fax Machine, Musical instruments, Stereo Equipment, etc. At office in Typewriters, Photocopiers, Elevators, Transmission control, etc. In industry in Industrial Automation, safety systems, Sewing Machine, Camcorder, etc Traffic Signals, Railways platform etc What inside them makes these machines smart? The answer is microcontroller. Creating applications for the microcontrollers is different than any other development job in electronics and computing. Before selecting a particular device for an application, it is important to understand what the different options and features are and what they can mean with regard to developing the application [1]. A. How is Microcontrollers Classified? The microcontrollers are characterized regarding bus-width, instruction set, and memory structure. For the same family, there may be different forms with different sources. This paper also is going to describe some of the basic types of the Microcontroller that newer users may not know about. 1) Classification according to number of bits a) The 8-bit microcontroller: Means CPU or ALU can process 8 bit data at a time. The examples of 8-bit microcontrollers are Intel 8031/8051. These are used in position control, speed control applications [2]. 2) The 16-bit microcontroller: It performs greater precision and performance as compared to 8-bit. These are developed for the purpose of high speed applications such as servo control system, Robotics etc. Some examples of 16-bit microcontroller are 16-bit MCUs are extended Intel 8096 and Motorola MC68HC12 families [2]. 3) 32-bit microcontroller: It uses the 32-bit instructions to perform the arithmetic and logic operations These are developed for the purpose of very high speed application in Image processing, Telecommunications , Intelligent control system etc [3]. Some examples are Intel/Atmel 251 family, PIC3x, ARM. B. Classification according to memory devices 1) Embedded memory microcontroller: When an embedded system has a microcontroller unit that has all the functional blocks available on a chip is called an embedded microcontroller. For example, 8051 having program & data memory, I/O 311 ©IJRASET 2014: All Rights are Reserved www.ijraset.com Volume 2 Issue XII, December 2014 ISSN: 2321-9653 International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology (IJRASET) ports, serial communication, counters and timers and interrupts on the chip is an embedded microcontroller[2]. 2) External Memory Microcontroller: When an embedded system has a microcontroller unit that has not all the functional blocks available on a chip is called an external memory microcontroller. For example, 8031 has no program memory on the chip is an external memory microcontroller [2]. C. Classification according to instruction set 1) CISC architecture: CISC means complex instruction set computer, it allows the user to apply 1 instruction as an alternative to many simple instructions [6]. Fig. 1 CISC architecture 2) RISC architecture: RISC means Reduced Instruction Set Computers. RISC reduces the operation time by shortening the clock cycle per instruction. The RISC gives a better execution than the CISC [6]. Fig. 2 RISC architecture D) Classification according to memory architecture 1) Harvard Memory Architecture Microcontroller: The point when a microcontroller unit has a dissimilar memory address space for the program and data memory, the microcontroller has Harvard memory architecture in the processor. The RISC gives a better execution than the CISC[8]. Fig.3 Harvard architecture 2)Princeton Memory Architecture Microcontroller: The point when a microcontroller has a common memory address for the program memory and data memory, the microcontroller has Princeton memory architecture in the processor [8]. 312 www.ijraset.com Volume 2 Issue XII, December 2014 ISSN: 2321-9653 International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology (IJRASET) Fig. 4 Princeton architecture II. TYPES OF MICROCONTROLLER A. 8051 Microcontroller 8051 microcontroller is an eight bit microcontroller invented in 1981 by Intel Corporation. It is available in 40 pin DIP i.e. dual in line package. This is the basic Microcontroller but still many companies are manufacturing such types of Microcontroller. The older types of 8051 have 12 clocks per instruction that make it sluggish whereas the recent 8051 have 6 clocks per instruction. The 8051 microcontroller does not have an in built memory bus and A/D converters and such Microcontrollers are CISC processors, also 8051 uses Von Neuman architecture [8]. Fig.5 Intel 8051 Microcontroller Various features of 8051 microcontroller are given as follows. 1) 8-bit CPU 2) 16-bit Program Counter 3) 8-bit Processor Status Word (PSW) 4) 8-bit Stack Pointer 5) 4K bytes internal ROM (program memory). 6) 128 bytes internal RAM (data memory). 7) Special Function Registers (SFRs) of 128 bytes 8) 32 I/O pins arranged as four 8-bit ports (P0 – P3) 9) Two 16-bit timer/counters : T0 and T1 10) Two external and three internal vectored interrupts 11) One full duplex serial I/O [7]. B. PIC Microcontroller Peripheral interface controller is a family of Microcontrollers by Microchip technology USA with Havard architecture. Originally this was developed as supporting device for PDP (program data processor) computers to support for its peripheral devices and therefore named as PIC. PIC Microcontrollers are RISC processors. An interesting thing about PIC is that its machine cycle consists of only 4 clock pulses in contrast with 12 clock pulses in Intel 8051 Microcontroller. PIC microcontrollers are finding their way into new applications like smart phones, audio accessories, video gaming peripherals and advanced medical devices [5]. 313 www.ijraset.com Volume 2 Issue XII, December 2014 ISSN: 2321-9653 International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology (IJRASET) Fig.6 PIC 16F877 Various features of PIC 16F877 microcontroller are given as follows 1) High-performance RISC CPU 2) Up to 8K x 14 words of FLASH program memory 3) 35 Instructions (fixed length encoding-14-bit) 4) 368×8 static RAM based data memory 5) Up to 256 x 8 bytes of EEPROM data memory 6) Interrupt capability (up to 14 sources) 7) Three addressing modes (direct, indirect, relative) 8) Power-on reset (POR) 9) Harvard architecture memory 10) Power saving SLEEP mode 11) Wide operating voltage range: 2.0V to 5.5V 12) High sink / source current: 25mA 13) Accumulator based machine[5]. C. ARM Microcontroller ARM is 32 bit Microcontroller whose core is designed by ARM Limited with RISC architecture. ARM has von Neumann architecture (program and RAM in the same space). ARM Microcontrollers are extremely used in power saving and operate in very low power consumption. ARM MicrocontrollersWidely used in modern handset for mobile communications. These are also used in various other embedded sysstem likes iPOD,hand held gaming unit,disk driver and so on. 8051 and PIC need multiple clock cycles per instruction. AVR and ARM execute most instructions in a single clock cycle [4]. Fig. 7 ARM microcontroller Various features of ARM microcontroller are given as follows 1) Maximum single cycle functioning 2) Constant 16×32 bit register file. 3) Load or store architecture. 4) Preset instruction width of 32 bits so as to simplify pipe-lining and decoding, at minimized code density. 5) For misaligned memory access there is no support [4]. D. AVR Microcontroller The AVR is a modified Harvard RISC architecture 8-bit RISC single-chip microcontroller, which is developed by Atmel in 1996. The AVR is stands for Alf-Egil Bogen and Vegard
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